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[quote=Anonymous]I am a US citizen, but spent my childhood years growing up in Ecuador. What I have observed is that in Ecuador, it was commonplace to see adult children, especially unmarried adult children still living at home with their parents. I suspect that many of these people shared the living quarters with family not because they necessarily wanted to, but for economic reasons. Many simply could not afford to pay their own rent.

In the US, it is frowned upon in popular culture if you are an adult still living at home with your parents. People automatically assume that these people have some sort of problem, without taking any circumstances or hardships they may be experiencing into consideration.

However, I believe that as the affordable housing crisis worsens, this living arrangement will become more commonplace and accepted. Anecdotally, I have seen in my local area that often times Hispanic and Asian families will live in an extended family situation. Especially if the family are new immigrants to the country, you might see adult cousins or brothers and sisters living with an aunt or uncle.

As others have stated, you don’t know the full picture of why the person lives with his or her parents. Is it due to an illness or disability? Is it due to to the affordability of housing in the local market?

I agree that I think there is a big difference between an adult living with their parents who pays his or her share of the bills and an adult who is freeloading off the parents. I suspect that it’s that image of “the freeloader” who captures the popular imagination and gives the whole idea a bad name and social stigma. But these days, I honestly don’t believe that to be the norm. I believe it’s a host of economic, personal, medical, and social circumstances conspiring to keep adults and their parents in a closer living arrangement.

I would love to see statistics and research conducted on how many adults in extremely high cost markets such as New York City, Washington, DC, and San Francisco are still living with parents because there are no jobs that pay enough in order to afford the exorbitant rents or mortgages in said cities.

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